Keyword: «qualification»

The article discusses the problem questions of the legal and procedural mediator’s status in the Russian criminal procedure. Author focuses on a problem of mediator`s professional skills in resolving criminal law conflicts. Also, the problem of the lack of legislative regulation of the principles, which the mediator carries out his activities, is highlighted in the article. Author proposes possible solutions to solve these problematic issues.

This article provides a more detailed description of the structure, results, joint work of the educational programs of the university.

The article examines one of the options for carrying out the instructions from the President of the Russian Federation concerning the students’ possibility to obtain two qualifications through the development of a standardized curriculum that would assign academic disciplines, modules, and practical trainings forming competences of a certain type to years of study. Presumably it will be ad hoc working groups created by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and federal educational and methodological associations that will determine the unified names, volume, and educational outcomes for academic disciplines forming generic and professional competences, indicators for achieving those competences as well as years in which the disciplines will be studied.

The authors consider the types of law enforcement errors standing out in the legal literature, show their impact on the quality of the preliminary investigation. Having studied individual decisions of prosecutors on the return of criminal cases for additional investigation, they determine the typical errors serving as a base for the return of criminal cases for additional investigation. The concepts of “significant violations of the criminal procedural law» and «incompleteness of the preliminary investigation» which are used to return criminal cases to a new investigation are analyzed from a historical point of view.

Respect for human rights and freedoms is protected under international law. The prohibition of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of persons is one of the guarantees of human rights and freedoms under international law. Torture was a criminal offence under Russian criminal law, but although it was permitted in certain cases. This article attempts to identify the extent to which domestic criminal legislation incorporates the elements of this socially dangerous act developed by international law.